Little Lagoon Preservation Society to hold quarterly meeting July 18

The Little Lagoon Preservation Society (LLPS) will hold a quarterly membership meeting at 5:30 p.m. July 18 at the Adult Activity Center in Gulf Shores.

Guest speaker Dr. Alice Ortmann will present "Identifying likely sources of fecal contamination of Little Lagoon, Alabama." She said that during water quality monitoring of Little Lagoon, it was observed that approximately 25 percent of the samples had high levels of fecal coliforms.

"Because fecal contamination from human sources has a higher health risk than contamination from animal sources, it is important to identify where the contamination is coming from," she said.

Ortmann is an assistant professor of Marine Sciences at the University of South Alabama.

Also on the meeting schedule:

Vince Calametti with the Alabama Department of Transportation will give an update on the delay with the Little Lagoon Pass and bridge replacement, which is expected to start after Labor Day.

Results from the Barney Montgomery meeting with ADEM and COGS document will be reviewed. Additional Lagoon uses to be reviewed include outreach and stakeholder education and scientific research.

Baldwin County Water Working Group, organized to develop a study of the county's groundwater resources, will be discussed. LLPS is set to join the group, which currently has as working group gathering well data.

A website update will be discussed, include water quality data viewable on an interactive website map. Designers are working on a data entry interface.